Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-22

SEVERAL firemen were injured al fire
in Chicago on the 10Th.
MAYOR OLIVER of Shellman, Ca, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th.
1T is given out confidently that the find
ing of the court martial in Lieutenant
Weber's case will exonerate him.
A FAMILY of six persons were burned to
death in tenement house in New Orleans
on the 10th.
A WRECK on the Mexican Central rail-
road on the 10Th caused the death OF the
engineer, named Cook.
MRS. MEIRLEHAM, granddaughter of
Thomas Jefferson, died on the evening of
the 18th, at Washington, D. c.
CovEToUs eyes are being turned toward
Holland in anticipation of the death of the
aged and infirm King William.
THE Texas Farmers Alliance has pur-
chased Marble Falls, on the Colorado
river, and will erect 100000 cotton mill.
A RAILROAD accident occurred on the
10th on the Midland railroad in England
by which twenty-four persons were killed
and seventy injured.
The President is said to have given a
strong intlmation that Secretary Lamar is
to be appointed to the Supreme bench.
IT is thought now that Major Couzins'
successor as marshal of the Eastern dis
trict of Missouri will not be appointed I'M
til the pending election cases are all tried.
A. A. WHITEHoUSE, while hunting near
Denver, Col, on the 10th, shot at what he
thought was game and killed his friend,
George II. Gordon.
JUDGE HALL, of the United States Dis
trict Court for the district of Colorado,
has rendered an important decision on
railroad rights to timber on public lands.
IN the grand military parade in Phila-
delphia on the 10th, in honor of the Con-
stitutional centennial there were the fol-
lowing: United States troops, 800; Della
ware, one full regiment; Pennsylvania,
three brigades, about 5000 men; New
Jersey, 800; Georgia, so; Connecticut.
100; Massachusetts,, 200; Maryland, l.
600; South Carolina, $50; New Hampshire,
$50; Virginia, 800; New York, 5000;
North Carolina, so; Rhode Island, 200;
Ohio, one full regiment; Maine, 400; West
Virginia, 200; Iowa, so; District of Colum
bia, 800; Grand Army, 1000; making,
with their bands and others, nearly 80, 600.
DURING the military parade in Philadel-
phia on the 10Th, and when the Grand
Army of the Republic contingent came
in sight, Mrs. Cleveland, with
private Secretary Lamont, his
wife, Mr.. Drexel and others who
were with her, retired from her position on
a balcony of the Hotel Lafayette, remain
ing absent during the time the veterans
were passing, causing much regretful COM
ment.
KEY WEST. Fla, is intensely alarmed
over the presence of Spanish gunboats and
Cuban filibuster movements.
A CABLE dispatch of the 10th says that
the Governor of Western Australia has
suspended the Chief Justice of the colony,
Hon. Alexander Campbell Onslow.
THE next session of the Supreme Legion,
a. o. U. W.. will be held in Kansas City,
Mo-, on the third Tuesday of August,
1888.
The lower level of the Luke Fiddler
colliery at Shamokin, Pa, took fire on the
10Th. Mine Boss Bryan Denman ann As
sistant Matt Framan are imprisoned in the
mine and can not be reached on account of
gas and smoke.
AT a conference of Scottish home-rulers
on the 10th, Findlater, president of the
Scottish Farmers Alliance, advocated
home rule for Scotland. He openly de-
clared that the northern and eastern coun-
ties of Scotland are ripe for it.
FRANK W. MAXoN, a wealthy stock
breeder Of the town of Walworth, Wis,
was gored to death on the evening of the
18th by blooded bull which he was lead.
pieces. Deceased was sixty years of age
and leaves wife.
DIR. CARVER, the rife champion, broke
100 glass balls in two minutes and fifteen
seconds at Cedar Rapids, Ia, ON the 10th,
beating all former records. He also broke
200 balls in four minutes and rty-eight
seconds.
THE rumor that the Eau Claire Lumber
Company, of Minneapolis, Mimi, has sold
out is confirmed. The company's saw-mill
and other property at Eau Claire and
Standing Pine, on the Eau Claire river,
are stated on good authority to have been
bought by the Mississippi Logging Com
pany. The consideration was 81, 000, 900.
Roscoe CoNKLING was among the pail
bearers at the funeral of Captain Michael
Cregan in New York, on the 10th. Among
the other pail bearers were Police JUS
tice Kelly, Bernard Biglin, Robert Nc
Cord and John J. O'Brien. Ex-Governor
Cornell, Dwight Lawrence, ex-senator
Brodsky, General John O'Bierne, Jacob
Hess, ex-Congressman Stewart and many
other friends of the deceased were also
present.